Use of forest edges by free-ranging cats and dogs in an urban forest fragment

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 427-436

  Marks, Britni K ^a   Duncan, R Scot ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 77749274096     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/058.008.0305     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Andelt, W.F., and T.P. Woolley. 1996. Responses of urban mammals to odor attractants and a bait-dispensing device. Wildlife Society Bulletin 24:111-118.
2. Azlan, J.M., and D.S.K. Sharma. 2003. Camera trapping the Indochinese Tiger, Panthera tigris corbetti, in a secondary forest in Peninsular Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51:421-427.
3. Barratt, D.G. 1997. Home-range size, habitat utilization, and movements patterns of suburban and farm cats, Felis catus. Ecography 20:271-280.
4. Beck, A. 1973. The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-ranging Urban Animals. York Press, Baltimore, MD. 98 pp.
5. Blair, R.B. 1996. Land use and avian species diversity along an urban gradient. Ecological Applications 6:506-519.
6. Brisbin, I.L., Jr. 1977. The pariah: Its ecology and importance to the origin, development, and study of pure-bred dogs. Pure-Bred Dogs American Kennel Gazette 94:22-29.
7. Brisbin, I.L., Jr., and T.S. Risch. 1997. Primitive dogs, their ecology and behavior: Unique opportunities to study the early development of the human-canine bond. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 210:1122-1126.
8. Butler, J.R.A., and J.T. du Toit. 2002. Diet of free-ranging Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) in rural Zimbabwe: Implications for wild scavengers on the periphery of wildlife reserves. Animal Conservation 5:29-37.
9. Butler, J.R.A., J.T. du Toit, and J. Bingham. 2004. Free-ranging Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) as predators and prey in rural Zimbabwe: Threats of competition and disease to large wild carnivores. Biological Conservation: 115:369-378.
10. Causey, M.K., and C.A. Cude. 1980. Feral dog and White-tailed Deer interactions in Alabama. Journal of Wildlife Management 44:481-484.
11. Coleman, J.S., and S.A. Temple. 1993. Rural residents' free-ranging domestic cats: A survey. Wildlife Society Bulletin 21:381-390.
12. Coleman, J.S., S.A. Temple, and S.R. Craven. 1997. Cats and wildlife: A conservation dilemma. Wisconsin Cooperative Extension, Madison, WI. 6 pp.
13. Crooks, K.R. 2002. Relative sensitivities of mammalian carnivores to habitat fragmentation. Conservation Biology 16: 488-502.
14. Crooks, K.R., and M.E. Soule. 1999. Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinction in a fragmented system. Nature 400:563-566.
15. Groom, M.J., G.K. Meffe, and C.R. Carroll. 2006. Principles of Conservation Biology, Third Edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. 779 pp.
16. Harrison, S., and E. Bruna. 1999. Habitat fragmentation and large-scale conservation: What do we know for sure? Ecography 22:225-232.
17. Hawkins, C.C., W.E. Grant, and M.T. Longnecker. 2004. Effect of house cats, being fed in parks, on California birds and rodents. Pp. 164-170, In W.W. Shaw, L.K. Harris, and L. Vandruff (Eds.). Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Urban Wildlife Conservation, May 1-5, 1999, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
18. Hegglin, D., F. Bontadina, S. Gloor, J. Romer, U. Muller, U. Breitenmoser, and P. Deplazes. 2004. Baiting Red Foxes in an urban area: A camera trap study. Journal of Wildlife Management 68:1010-1017.
19. Heilbrun, R.D., N.J. Silvy, M.J. Peterson, and M.E. Tewes. 2006. Estimating Bobcat abundance using automatically triggered cameras. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:69-73.
20. Kays, R.W., and A.A. DeWan. 2004. Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve. Animal Conservation 7:273-283.
21. Locke, S.L., M.D. Cline, D.L. Wetzel, M.T. Pittman, C.E. Brewer, and L.A. Harveson. 2005. A web-based digital camera for monitoring remote wildlife. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:761-765.
22. Lowry, D.A. 1978. Domestic Dogs as predators on deer. Wildlife Society Bulletin 6:38-39.
23. Manor, R., and D. Saltz. 2004. The impact of free-ranging dogs on gazelle kid/female ratio in a fragmented area. Biological Conservation 119:231-236.
24. Murcia, C. 1995. Edge effects in fragmented forests: Implications for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Conservation 10:58-62.
25. Oehler, J.D., and J.A. Litvaitis. 1996. The role of spatial scale in understanding responses of medium-sized carnivores to forest fragmentation. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74:2070-2079.
26. Olson, C.A., K.D. Mitchell, and P.A. Werner. 2000. Bait ingestion by free-ranging Raccoons and nontarget species in an oral rabies vaccine field trial in Florida. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 36:734-743.
27. Patronek, G.J., and A.N. Rowan. 1995. Determining dog and cat numbers and population dynamics. Anthrozoös 8:199-205.
28. Raney, P. 2007. Ruffner Mountain Nature Center Natural Communities Conservation Plan. Ruffner Mountain Nature Center, Birmingham, AL. 13 pp. Roelke, M.E., D.J. Forrester, E.R. Jacobson, G.V. Kollias, F.W. Scott, M.C. Barr, J.F.
29. Evermann, and E.C. Pirtle. 1993. Seroprevalence of infectious disease agents in free-ranging Florida Panthers (Felis concolor coryi). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 29:36-49.
30. Rowcliffe, J.M., and C. Carbone. 2008. Surveys using camera traps: Are we looking to a brighter future? Animal Conservation 11:185-186.
31. Scott, M.D., and K. Causey. 1973. Ecology of feral dogs in Alabama. Journal of Wildlife Management 37:253-265.
32. Sequin, E.S., M.M. Jaeger, P.F. Brussard, and R.H. Barrett. 2003. Wariness of Coyotes to camera traps and territory boundaries. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81:2015-2025.
33. Wilcove, D.S. 1985. Nest predation in forest tracts and the decline of migratory songbirds. Ecology 66:1211-1214.
34. Wilcove, D.S., D. Rothstein, J. Dubow, A. Phillips, and E. Losos. 1998. Quantifying threats to imperiled species in the United States. Bioscience 48:607-615.
35. Woods, M., R.A. McDonald, and S. Harris. 2003. Predation of wildlife by Domestic Cats Felis catus in Great Britain. Mammal Review 33:174-188.